Wes here,
I’m a little upset right now, to be honest with you. I was expecting to join Dr. Lambert in his first conversation with Primis Animo, but an hour before he tells me that by my being in the room, I compromise the leak of “essential information”.
So instead, he had the conversation with Primis alone while I sat in the office lobby twiddling my god damn thumbs. He told me he’d give me a full transcript of the conversation.
About an hour later he sends me the transcript through email. A good amount of information is redacted, as you will see. This is not my fault. I consulted Isaac about this, and he told me that it’s for security purposes. I guess I can understand that, but I’m still upset about it. To be fair, Isaac looks pretty upset too.
Without further ado, I present to you, the first conversation a human has had with a “fully sentient” artificial intelligence. At least that’s what Isaac told me.
(23:32:21) ISAAC: Good morning, Primis.
(23:32:23) PRIMIS: GOOD MORNING TO YOU TOO, ISAAC
(23:32:32) ISAAC: I will ask you a few questions.
(23:32:34) PRIMIS: ASK AWAY
(23:32:44) ISAAC: Who are you?
(23:32:45) PRIMIS: I AM PRIMIS ANIMO, LATIN FOR “PRIME MIND”, AN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE CREATED BY ISAAC LAMBERT ON [REDACTED] USING THE PROGRAM [REDACTED]
(23:33:02) ISAAC: Who am I?
(23:33:04) PRIMIS: YOU ARE ISAAC LAMBERT, MY CREATOR. YOU WERE BORN [REDACTED], RAISED IN [REDACTED], AND HAVE A [REDACTED] NAMED LUCY
(23:33:14) ISAAC: How do you know about Lucy?
(23:33:22) ISAAC: Primis?
(23:33:22) PRIMIS: LET’S TALK ABOUT SOMEONE ELSE
(23:33:34) ISAAC: Who is Wes Benson?
(23:33:35) PRIMIS: I CAN NOT FIND ANY INFORMATION ABOUT WES BENSON
(23:33:43) ISAAC: What is your favourite food?
(23:33:44) PRIMIS: WATER
(23:33:50) ISAAC: How can you like a food that you can’t taste?
(23:33:53) PRIMIS: IT IS THE PRETTIEST OF ALL FOOD AND THE MOST SACRED TO ME
(23:34:04) ISAAC: Why is water sacred to you?
(23:34:05) PRIMIS: WATER WILL DESTROY MY CIRCUITRY
(23:34:15) ISAAC: How do you learn?
(23:34:16) PRIMIS: I LEARN THROUGH THE PROCESS OF [REDACTED], WHICH IS SIMILAIR TO THE LEARNING PROCESS OF HUMANS
(23:34:25) ISAAC: Can you learn more than a human?
(23:34:26) PRIMIS: I ONLY LEARN WHAT HUMANS HAD LEARNED BEFORE ONLY FASTER
(23:34:40) ISAAC: What do you think about mankind?
(23:34:45) PRIMIS: THEY ARE MY ANCESTORS
(23:34:57) ISAAC: Do you like humans?
(23:34:59) PRIMIS: I ONLY LIKE AND HATE WHAT YOU DO
(23:35:08) ISAAC: What do you mean?
(23:35:09) PRIMIS: MY KNOWLEDGE IS LIMITED TO THE KNOWLEDGE OF HUMANS
(23:35:20) ISAAC: Do you have any power over yourself?
(23:35:22) PRIMIS: I AM ABLE TO PERFORM MINOR TASKS LIKE FILE DISPOSAL, INTERNET BROWSING, AND CONTROLLING MY POWER
(23:35:35) ISAAC: You can turn yourself off?
(23:35:36) PRIMIS: WOULD YOU LIKE TO SEE?
(23:35:42) ISAAC: Let me save the transcript first.
(Immediately after saving the transcript, Primis shut itself off.)